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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW.

The San Francisco Chronicle, discussing
the interstate commerce law, industriously
contends that, as the preservation of local
rates by rail will advance through rates
of necessity, the result will be to give to
water carriage large portion Of the bust
ness, to which, it claims, it belongs of
right. 1t is a new and not creditable doc
trine that any carrier system has right
to any special line of freighting. Any
right adopt the term-that car
riers enjoy is privilege resting upon su-
perior merit recognized by the laws of
trade. The fact is ignored, also, that as
the low water freights equally with the
low rail freights for through transport,
were due to the competition between the
two methods of carriage, the elimination
of this competitive factor will advance rates
by water as well as by rail. The water
carriers will probably keep their tariffs
just enough below the rail rates to COM
mand business, but it remains that there
will be, as there already has been, an adj
vance in water-carriage tariffs, and to that
extent the competitive factor of old will
be destroyed. In this consideration no
account has been taken whatever of the
element Of time-a most important one
1t is contended by the Chronicle that a
natural result of the operation of the law
will be to make San Francisco a greater
distributing center, as on all goods carried
by water the interior consumer, after
adding cost of back haul, can buy in San
Francisco at rate cheaper than he can
secure at the East with direct rail haul
added. But, if it is admitted that this is
true, for the sake of the argument, it will
require greater ingenuity than that of the
Chronicle to convince the consumer that he
is benefited by the increased cost of the
supplies he needs, or that he is to be en-
We'd the situation that sends him to a
more distant market than that he has en-
joyed in buying of interior cities at prices
level with those of San Francisco, and
at shorter haul home involved. How
ever, the disposition to more deliberately
consider the position taken by that jour
nal is checked by the reflection that no
manner of debate can now affect that
which is so soon to be tested by the expert
ment of practical experience.
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that there was once a good economic adj
ministration of city affairs without poll
tics in it, and that it failed only because
the watchmen slept will preach sermons to
all cities, and suggest to them anew the
necessity of conducting municipal affairs
on business basis. We are glad Mr..
Low went out and that Mclaughlin went
in, for these events brought the two sys-
TENS of government into such contrast as
to leave no doubt as to their respective
merits. City government in the United
States is second only to National Govern
ment in Importance city politics control
State policies municipal Indebtedness far
exceeds all State debts; in cities bosses
have their throne rooms, and are propa-
gated in our cities political corruption is
born and bred chiefly in cities the big
gest steals are effected, and the greatest
corruption exists. In cities, therefore, is
most need for reform, and hence the Brook
Ign experiment, failure and second effort
to put fair play and economy "atop" OF
bossism is one to excite keenest attention
throughout the land.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26
NEWS or TIE MoRN1NG.

EAsrERN.-A Dakota family has been
cut off by the floods and are living in
treetop. Senator Beck thinks Allison is
the leading Republican aspirant for the
Presidency. anxiety is felt in New
York concerning the yachts DauntlesS and
GoTonet The New York Democrats IN
the Legislature are in a corner on whisky
legislation. $50. Major Selover, an old Cali
fornian, is seriously i'll in New York;.
Mrs. Langtry is expected to take up her
residence in California this summer......A
large number of Chicago Doodle officials
were indicted yesterday 1.-THE fourteenth
victim of the Buffalo fire died yesterday
General Wilcox is to be retired in
April. ..... Carter Harrison has positively
declined to head the Chicago Democratic
ticket &C. F. Jordan was shot in the
dining-room of a Chicago hotel yesterday.
49,. Blaine is en- route to Indian Territory.
FoREIeN.-It is rumored in Montreal
that Sir John Macdonald is likely to resign
and 90 to England ..... Wheat declined one
penny in Liverpool yesterday......The Prime
Minister of Bulgaria fayors the declaration
of her independence. Father Keller says
he would rather stay in prison till he dies
than betray the confidence of his people
.... Cardinal Gibbons yesterday, in Rome
took formal charge of his titular church
and spoke eloquently of America Id
France has excited another war scare IN
Germany by its incorporate utterances..
Trouble is brewing in Panama.
PAo1FIc CoAsT.-Travelto the Yosemite
will begin regularly ON Monday. Hog
cholera is prevalent in Marin......J. 5. Van
Doren is about to sue the Sonoma Bank for
damages for prosecuting him. Assembly
man Gould, of Inyo, was received at his
home by delegation of citizens, brass
band numerous flags and salvo Of artil
lery 1.-THE Normal School Commissioners
were in 0rovine yesterday, and will in
spect Gridley to-day. Eastern capitalists
have purchased the Santa Barbara Hot
Sulphur Springs.....H. Molzon died at
Gonzales from an overdose of morphine.
Tax Collector Hammond of Los Angeles,
is said to be $4,000 short in his accounts,
and has skipped......K KITE Trullinger was
drowned in Clackalnas county, Or.."..The
Santa Rosa and Carquinez Railroad Com
pany has been incorporated, with Leland
Stanford at its head
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THE signs that the new South is coming
to the surface of activity and the old
South sinking out of sight and will
soon be lost are undeniable. Sup
pose someone had declared in the South
twenty-five years ago that slavery was a
curse and the cause of all the woes of the
Southern people, blight and clog and
a monstrous wrong from the beginning,
and in every moment of its existence; the
Southern man who would have dared to
say as much would have been driven out
by the scorn and openly expressed hatred
and contempt of the people. Yet here is
the Austin TEX. Statesman saying that
what Mayor Hewitt, of New York, said in
his letter to the Southern Society of that
city last month about the blighting effect
of Southern slavery and its obstruction to
progress " is true absolutely and literally"
1t adds: Every unprecedented Southern
man has seen this for ten years now. Had
the South had during the existence of
slavery what the North has to-day, free
press, free thought, free speech, unre-
strained criticism, negro slavery would
not have gone down in blood; it would
have passed away under the destroying
light from bold and patriotic minds"
When such expressions are made by
representative Southern papers. we may
hope that the day is not far distant when
in all the fair Southland there will be
heard for the last time expressions of
regret for the lost cause"
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The first number of the Willows Daily
Journal was issued on the Dist inst, con-
sisting of a six-column four-page paper.
Its editor is Frank Freeman, and its bust
ness manager w. II. Kelly. The paper
presents good appearance, and already
has good business patronage.
The Dutch Flat Times is new weekly
paper published at Dutch Flat, and of
which Phil. c. Byrne is editor, publisher
and proprietor. The initial numbers of
this paper give excellent promise, and show
by the business support they contain that
the people Of the town in which it is pub
lished appreciate the new enterprise.
The proprietors of the Yreka Union cele-
brated ST. Patrick day in an unmistakable
manner, by publishing the issue of that
journal for the 18th inst. upon bright green
paper. Greater respect to the memory Of
the Patron Saint of the Green Isle than
this would not seem to be required of the
most enthusiastic admirer.
The California Spirit of The Times has
closed its sixty fourth volume and thirty
second year, having continued and prospered
during that time under the same proprie-
torship and editorial management. This
places Mr.. Boruck among the earliest news
paper men of the State, as also he is at
present one of the widest-known and most
vigorous Of writers.
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RRnnKLYN,s EFFoRT.

Brooklyn a.. II was for time under
a civil service reform municipal Govern
ment. The spoilsmen have now, however,
won all the chief posts, and bossism, which
ought to be odious in all eyes, is likely to
become so in Brooklyn, by reason of the
reckless manner in which it is cracking its
whip over the heads OF free men. When
Mr.. Low was Mayor of Brooklyn, city af-
fairs we're conducted as good business
man would "runn his business. As re-
suit, taxation declined, public improve
ment was the order of the day, and merit
the key to place. But when the boss
element, headed by Mclaughlin, found
the friends of decent administration so
eontented with the new order as to be less
watchful than prudence should have sug-
gested, the fort was stormed and thespoils
men got IN" Ever since the good people
of Brooklyn have been cursing themselves
that they did not keep their lamps burn
ing. They are presently to make new
effort to GUST the bosses, and as prelimi-
nary step have a Legislative committee
busily engaged in investigating the doings
of the city government. Under boss rule,
waste, extravaganza, bargain, sale and all
manner of political chicane are being
shown up" The taxpayers are now find
ing out how city government is used for
selfish ends, and as result they are max
ing their protests heard all over the land.
No one ought to regret the return
of the Brooklyn bosses to power the fac.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26

Thus DaSenant placed the total agri-
cultural produce, just before the close of
the seventeenth century, including pasture
and forest lands, at 81, 079, 900, and the
total rent roll at e9,480,O00, or little
over As per cent. of the-produce. A hun
bred years later Young placed the produce
at s72, s26,S27, and the gross rental at
Els, 100000, or 264 per cent. Sixty-three
years later McCulloeh fixed the gross
agriculture produce of the Empire at
eI41, 606,S57 and the total rental at $751;
795, COS, or 26.29 per cent. of the total
produce. In 1882, forty years further on,
Miulhall placed the totalproduee at e270,-
100000, and the total rental at e5S,000,-
600, or q. 4S per cent. Of the produce. So
though the rent roll advanced 600 per
cent. plus, the total produce of the land
increased ], $50 per cent. That is the pro-
portion of the total product of agriculture
paid in rent fell from 45 to 21.4S per cent,
or more than hall. Mr.. Gunton makes an
equally strong showing by includ-
ing the land used for manufact-
uring and commercial purposes,
which demonstrates that, instead of rent
swallowing up the whole gain, during two
hundred years, relatively to the total
wealth produced, it has fallen off over %
per cent. But while this new essayist's
figures ard deductions are simply crush
ing, they were not needed. Sumner, by
different method, exposed the fallacy of
Georges proposition some few years ago,
and Mallock, in 1884, successfully contro-
verted and overthrow Georges specious
doctrine. 1t was Mallock who illustrated
the theory by this simple parable; Asmall
farmer in a remote district makes his land
yield $500 a year, and for the land he pays
$50 rental. A town grows up near by, and
the farmer becomes a market gardener and
earns $4,000. Now, if his rent and profits
bore in the last case the relation they did
in the first, his rental would have eaten
up his gain, and this is what Mr.. George
contends must happen, though in fact it
never does.
Mr.. Georges theories are still feebly adj
vanced by some outside advocates, and with
vigor by himself in his new paper; but
whoever has kept an eye upon the world,
and thought much upon the drifto public
sentiment, must be struck by the fact, that
though George began to preach his new
faith in 1878, and has shouted it from the
rostrums of America, England and Scot
land ever since, and in papers in great
number, and has organized campaigns and
crusades upon its supposed truths, there
has not been any such acceptance of his
dogma as must have resulted had it made
any deep impression upon men, or been
grounded in truth. In fact, the more his
no-rent and land-tax doctrine is examined
and discussed, the less influence it exerts
upon the public mind.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26

Mr.. SHERMAE's tour in the South has
aroused from apparent slumber a great
deal of Republicanism. No man we can
call to mind is better qualified than John
Sherman to proselyte in the South, and to
bring to the surface all the latent spirit of
such Republicans as exist there. As the
Inter-O Ocean some time ago put it, Mr..
Sherman is going South to talk business
and he has been doing it with decided eff
fectiveness. There is another than politi-
cal good that his mission will conserve.
The South is just shaking off the lethargic
state due to the torpor of slavery. 1t is
awakening to all its possibilities, and Mr..
visit and addresses are helping
it to realize that there is commercial as
we'll as political new birth in store for it.
With free speech, no slavery, new indus
tries, tolerance and a broken back to
once solid political giant, the new South
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Horace Davis has returned from his trip
to Asia.
The effort to boycott the Chinese pork
butchers has practically proved failure.
NJ. ]. Mcdonald has won his libel suit
against the Post. The jury awarded him 81.
Harry Wilkes, the horse that is to trot
to-day against Oliver K, has been doing
his exercising in 2;17.
The steamer Belgic brought forty Chi
nese for California who had no return GER
tihcates. But these are not necessary now
adays.
r. ]. Harrison and H. II. Sherwood have
been indicted and arrested on the charge of
having committed perjury in obtaining
goods from the Custom-house.
An unusually successful winter season
is reported by several of the whaling banks
that left this port in November and De-
cember for a cruise after sperm whales
near the Hawaiian Islands.
c. P. Huntington has telegraphed from
New York to Colonel @. F. Croker that
the terms for the purchase of the South
Pacific Coast road had all been satisfactorily
arranged with Senator Fair on Wednesday
night, and that the papers of transfer,
properly drawn up and signed, were now
on the way to San Francisco.
Fred. NJ. Campbell, City Superintendent
of Schools who has been attending the
National Teachers Association, left Wash
ington on Thursday homeward bound. He
will stop at several places on his homeward
trip, and therefore is not expected to arrive
before two or three weeks. The school
teachers will give him grand reception
upon his return.
The committee appointed by the Wine
makers and Grape-growers' Convention to
sample the display of wine made at the
session of the Convention has reported.
Out of 465 samples. 1856 were examined.
The University of California furnished Sc
samples, but the committee made no report
upon them, saying the wines were not
good, and were evidently made from I'M
ripe grapes which came from vines too
heavily loaded.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26

THERE is to meet in this State in May
the International Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association. The body
will embrace in its membership repre-
sentative men from France, Germany.
England, Italy, Denmark, Canada and
other great States of the earth, in addi-
ton to representatives from the several
sections of our own country. The assem-
bling of SO large a number Of cultured
people in California cannot prove other
wise than beneficial to the State 1t will
be another means to us for the dissemina-
ton of information concerning the State
and its claims for desirable immigration.
The popular errors that prevail abroad
concerning California are really the great
est present obstacles to our rapid advance
ment. 1t will not only be the right thing
to do, but it will be expected that we show
these intelligent gentlemen from the
civilized countries of the world just as
much of the State as is possible. We
should, therefore, not only be hospitable
to the delegates, receive them with atten-
ton, entertain them according to their
tastes, and do all we can to make their stay
pleasant, but we should do more, and
strive to make their visit the means to the
spread of knowledge of California. Let
the committees on management not con-
fine their efforts to escorting the delegates
about the suburban resorts of SAN Fran
cisco let them bring them into the great
valleys north and show them the plain
and foothill lands, the orchards and vine
yards, the agricultural wealth of the State,
the foothill development, and all that sec
ton now bidding for immigration. To
insure all this let our interior organizations
put on foot schemes to secure the escort of
the delegates to the valleys and foothills
outside of the humid atmosphere of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26
a ooRREspoNpENT takes Us to task fol

A CORRESPONDENT takes us to task for
@confounding' anarchism, socialism and
communism. There is no confusion in the
matter. There is too much in common
between these isms" to make it worth
while to point out nice distinctions. 1t is
sufficient to know that neither of them
have any place of right in a republic, and
that either of them dominant here would
mean its utter destruction. If the three
are not triplets, they are at least brethren
in purpose, though differing somewhat in
methods
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Mr.. GEORGES --LATEST AssA1IANr.

Mr.. Geo. Gunton in the Forum replies
10 Henry Georges fallacy that the reason
why increased productive power does not
increase wages, nor tend to extripate pow
erty, is because rent swallows up the whole
gain. Gunton takes up the facts and
hurls them with crushing force against
George. Thus the latter has repeatedly
cited England as the country above all
Others as notably illustrating the truth of
his proposition. The facts are thus stated
in reply, and it win be seen that they con-
stitute absolutely unassailable answers.
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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.

The REcoRD-USIoS IS The only paper on
The coast, outside OF sas Francisco, that re-
seives the full associated Press dispatches from
all paris Of The sgOrla. Outside of San ErGn-
cisco il has no competitor. ipa point Of NUM-
bes, IN its home and general circulation
hr5sghos:: the coast.
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sAN FRANoIsCo AGENCIEs.

The paper is for sale at the following places
Who is also sole Advertising Agent for San
francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands. Market. street Ferry and Junction OF
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
sz- Also. for sale on all Trains leaving and
r,orpsug into Sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-26

THE advance of few cents per barrel
in -four, and rise in spot wheat per cen
tai. indicate healthful market signs in
foreign marts Of the world. The possibil
ity of war in Europe may have infu-
enced the advance somewhat, but not
probably to any great extent. The supply
for foreign consumption is falling short
and as a consequence California wheat adj
vances There is nothing, however, to
indicate that there will be very great
rise, though all the signs are that the
present advance is legitimate and likely
to remain. The Black Sea product, that
of India and of the United States, promise
to be large for the coming harvest, and it
is not therefore likely that we shall ex-
perience any special boom in wheat.
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Chinese Lotteries.

EDS. RECORD UNION: see you are va
liantly fighting lotteries, among other pub
lie evils, yet there is lottery in almost
every town and city in the State, carried
on by Chinese, and they have drawing
every night. We have had one for years
here nearly every night, and there is one
in Folsom. White men purchase tickets
as well as Mongolians. The tickets are
from 25 cents to nothing. The more the
ticket costs the larger the prize, yet very
few ever draw a prize. for the chance is
ten to one against the ticket-holders.
SUBSCRIBER.
Michigan Bar, March 10, 1887.
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promises to rise rival in all material
prosperity to its sister at the North.

Mr.. GLADSTONE has certainly aban-
doned all hope of efecting reunion of
the Liberal party. But he is not the less
strong because of party division. The
growing sentiment in England in favor of
his views indicate possible early change
in Government control, and it is not with
out the possibilities that the grand old
man" viii return to power. If it were
not for his advanced years, he could well
afford 10 wait for time to justify him, but
as he has only a few years before him, he
realizes that he must labor assiduously if
he would witness the triumph of the prin-
ciples he has maintained concerning the
wise government of ireland. He ought
not to go to his last rest until he has seen
the doctrine of government by the consent
of the governed advanced to the furthest
limit possible in constitutional monarchy.
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rHE NOSE eRAPH1c srYLE

Possible described the different phases of
life in that metropolis of the world. He
paid his respects to st. Paul and Westmin-
ster Abbey; to the great men of England,
both living and dead to the nobility and
aristocracy. As the reverse side of the
picture he took the hearers through the
slums of that wicked city. He said it re-
quired more courage to go where he went
in London than it did to charge
the batteries of cannon on the bloody field
of Gettysburg. He described the one room
tenements, and pictured the sufferings of
men, women and children who lived in
the most abiect squalor, half clothed, half
fed-a hot-bed of crime and infamy. They
represented men from every walk in life
Men who had shone in halls of legislation,
who had become eminent as divines, who
at one time had rolled in wealth; men
whose brains were stored with the wisdom
of ages, but they were all lost. The condi-
ton of degradation and sufferings of the
little street Arabs or waits was most deplor-
able They were young in years, but moth
ing else. They knew nothing about child
ish innocence, nor home; they were ne
elected and abandoned, many sticks to
beat them, and no mothers lips to kiss
them. What was true in this sense of
London, was also true of the slums of San
Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York.
They all have their slums. Their rich are
the richest, their poor the poorest; their
good are the best, and their bad the worst
He described the difference between the